From the Album of the Same Name [Import]

Pilot | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 27, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Sfm
• ASIN: B0000072X0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,342,061 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Just a Smile

2. Magic

3. Lucky for Some

4. Girl Next Door

5. Lovely Lady Smile

6. Sooner or Later

7. Don't Speak Loudly

8. Over Speak Moon

9. Never Give Up

10. High into the Sky

11. Auntie Iris

12. Sky Blue

13. Just Let Me Be [*]

14. January [*]

15. Do Me Good [*]

16. The Mover [*]

17. Canada [*]

Editorial Reviews

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of this 1974 album from the British Pop trio including bonus tracks. Signed to EMI in April 1974, consummate musicians David Paton/Billy Lyall/Stuart Tosh expertly meshed catchy tunes, punchy guitars and strong harmonies to score major international success with three albums in three years. From The Album Of. was written by Paton and Lyall and majorly demoed before they ever got to EMI's studios, whereupon they picked Alan Parsons from the in-house staff list to produce. Soft Rock meets Prog Rock with enough mainstream hooks to keep the customer more than satisfied. The Top 10 single 'Magic' is here in album form and original 'pre-strings' version. Bonus tracks also include two unreleased songs and a rare early off-shoot single released as Scotch Mist. RPM. 2009. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Magic beyond decades, January 11, 1999

By 

Javier Moreno (San Francisco Bay Area, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From the Album of the Same Name (Audio CD)

This is a superb album with extraordinary arrangments and well played instruments and voices. David Paton and Bill Lyall know how to make good songs and touch our hearts and minds.

The best moments of this magic album are "Just A Smile", "My Auntie Iris", "Lovely Lady Smile", the sgt.peppered "Over The Moon", "The Girl Next Door" and the masterpiece "Magic", maybe one of the best pop songs ever recorded. The power of this trio is concentred in the vocal variations within the chords, and they work just at the finest vocal levels ever recorded in music history.

Definetely, "From the Album of the Same Name" is the Best Album of 1974, with Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" and Wings' "Band On The Run".

Buy It now, brother, you won't regret it. Pure quality.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One-U.S.-hit wonders back up the hit with a solid debut album, January 15, 2011

By 

hyperbolium (Earth, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: From the Album of the Same Name (Audio CD)

The Scottish light-rock group Pilot is known to US listeners by exactly one song: the million-selling 1975 hit single, "Magic." Produced by Alan Parsons and featuring former Bay City Rollers David Paton and Billy Lyall, the single has a memorable vocal hook (which itself has been used in many commercials) and an arrangement that brings to mind Marmalade, Edison Lighthouse and Badfinger. The album is finely sung, with lead vocals that reach into the high-notes of Ray Davies and Jon Anderson, and finely crafted arrangements that combine sunshine- and soft-pop with moments of Steely Dan-like jazz-prog-rock. It's no surprise that the musicianship is top-notch, as three members of the band would work with their producer as part of the Alan Parsons Project two years later. The album cuts are catchy, though not as catchy as the single, which may explain Pilot's disappearance from the American charts. Their next album, Second Flight, yielded the UK hit "January," but the single flopped in the US, barely inching its way onto the bottom of the Hot 100. Among the bonus tracks is the original, slower version of "Magic," which provides a good example of just what a producer adds to a hit single. [©2011 hyperbolium dot com]